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The top names of 1987

Jessica led the girls and Michael the boys, out of 3,605,616 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1987

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Jessica	55,992	3.22%
2	Ashley	54,856	3.16%
3	Amanda	41,786	2.40%
4	Jennifer	32,710	1.88%
5	Sarah	27,894	1.60%
6	Stephanie	22,402	1.29%
7	Brittany	22,231	1.28%
8	Nicole	20,286	1.17%
9	Heather	18,982	1.09%
10	Elizabeth	18,608	1.07%
11	Samantha	17,944	1.03%
12	Megan	17,823	1.03%
13	Melissa	17,674	1.02%
14	Danielle	17,010	0.98%
15	Amber	16,749	0.96%
16	Lauren	16,710	0.96%
17	Rachel	15,646	0.90%
18	Tiffany	14,742	0.85%
19	Emily	14,710	0.85%
20	Christina	13,816	0.79%
21	Michelle	13,034	0.75%
22	Laura	13,033	0.75%
23	Kimberly	13,031	0.75%
24	Amy	11,786	0.68%
25	Rebecca	11,627	0.67%
26	Crystal	11,011	0.63%
27	Kayla	10,576	0.61%
28	Katherine	10,438	0.60%
29	Sara	10,090	0.58%
30	Kelly	9,866	0.57%
31	Erica	9,328	0.54%
32	Whitney	8,923	0.51%
33	Courtney	8,909	0.51%
34	Erin	8,847	0.51%
35	Angela	8,583	0.49%
36	Andrea	8,496	0.49%
37	Mary	8,395	0.48%
38	Katie	8,197	0.47%
39	Jamie	7,916	0.46%
40	Lisa	7,549	0.43%
41	Lindsey	7,457	0.43%
42	Kristen	7,361	0.42%
43	Vanessa	7,348	0.42%
44	Allison	7,341	0.42%
45	Shannon	6,968	0.40%
46	Alicia	6,776	0.39%
47	Chelsea	6,631	0.38%
48	Christine	6,620	0.38%
49	Lindsay	6,530	0.38%
50	Victoria	6,255	0.36%

Boys, 1987

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Michael	63,664	3.41%
2	Christopher	54,493	2.92%
3	Matthew	46,511	2.49%
4	Joshua	40,002	2.14%
5	David	36,795	1.97%
6	Andrew	36,206	1.94%
7	Daniel	35,876	1.92%
8	James	32,659	1.75%
9	Justin	31,491	1.69%
10	Robert	30,237	1.62%
11	John	29,555	1.58%
12	Joseph	28,516	1.53%
13	Ryan	28,490	1.53%
14	Brandon	24,823	1.33%
15	William	24,202	1.30%
16	Nicholas	23,247	1.25%
17	Anthony	23,127	1.24%
18	Jonathan	23,119	1.24%
19	Kevin	20,421	1.09%
20	Brian	20,362	1.09%
21	Eric	20,203	1.08%
22	Kyle	19,862	1.06%
23	Jason	19,350	1.04%
24	Thomas	18,139	0.97%
25	Steven	17,768	0.95%
26	Timothy	17,398	0.93%
27	Adam	16,931	0.91%
28	Benjamin	14,892	0.80%
29	Jeremy	14,474	0.78%
30	Richard	14,401	0.77%
31	Jacob	14,326	0.77%
32	Jeffrey	13,477	0.72%
33	Zachary	13,201	0.71%
34	Aaron	12,685	0.68%
35	Charles	12,173	0.65%
36	Mark	11,993	0.64%
37	Alexander	11,835	0.63%
38	Stephen	11,550	0.62%
39	Tyler	11,542	0.62%
40	Sean	11,455	0.61%
41	Patrick	11,142	0.60%
42	Travis	10,397	0.56%
43	Scott	10,194	0.55%
44	Dustin	10,108	0.54%
45	Nathan	9,910	0.53%
46	Paul	9,707	0.52%
47	Gregory	9,135	0.49%
48	Jose	8,737	0.47%
49	Cody	8,675	0.46%
50	Samuel	8,576	0.46%

United States national data, Social Security Administration. The file counts Social Security applications, so its early decades undercount; the share column is a name's part of the names recorded for that sex that year, not of all births. How we use it.

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